Re: CHAT: browsers

Joe wrote:
> My genaration works in an annoying hybrid metric-imperial system.  Small
> liquid measurements in ml, large ones in either pints or litres, (or
> gallons).  Long distances in Miles, short ones in metres.  People in feet and
> stones, everything else in centimetres and kilograms.
Estimations of people's heights are in feet here, too, but we wouldn't
expect that if someone said they were six foot tall, they meant that
they were six foot tall (i.e. 1.8288 m tall). Nothing else is; anything
but the conversions of inches (12 a foot is a given, 'about 2.5 cm'
earns you extra bonus points, and no-one cares about the remaining 0.04
cm) and feet (about 30 cm) is considered trivia, and talking of things
like bushels is likely to get you a blank stare unless someone was bored
and looked at the back of a Tudor exercise book.

*Note: buildings, especially commercial buildings, are often advertised
as being 'x sq. ft (y m^2)', but these things aren't aimed at people of
my generation.

Tristan.